By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

This book presents studies from authors at the cutting edge of secondlanguage vocabulary research, whose output represents much of the currentfocus and direction of work in this area. The authors address variousaspects of L2 lexical processing and explore different models ofacquisition, processing and storage. The studies are linked by the factthat the authors have all belonged to the same dynamic and influentialvocabulary acquisition research group led by Paul Meara. Alison Wrayprovides an overview of how Meara has led this group’s research activitiesin an innovative PhD programme, and John Read and Paul Nation contribute acritical evaluation of Meara’s wide-ranging contributions to the field ofvocabulary acquisition research. The research studies presented here arerelevant and replicable, offering researchers and teachers many valuableand critical insights into lexical processing in second language learners.